I downloaded the portable packages of MikTex and TeXStudio, and unpacked them onto usb flash drive. I do not understand what to do next to configure the TeXstudio to use or work with the MikTeX. I do not understand how to use the information in the documentation I found.

The files I started with are miktex-portable-2.9.4250.exe and texstudio251_win32-usb.zip. The computer is with Windows XP s.p. 3, intel celeron 2.0 GHz processor; and since the portables listed easily fit on the usb flash drive, the space there is more than enough.

Now, what do I do so that I can start to learn to use these programs? How exactly to make the configuring? Thanks.

MiKTeX Portable Installation

The installation of MiKTeX Portable (currently version 2.9.4250 Windows 32-Bit) is summarized in the download page. Here are the steps for extracting MiKTeX Portable. The italicized instructions were copied from the download page.

Start the self-extractor by double-clicking on miktex-portable-2.9.4250.exe.

Click the ellipse button (the one with the three dots) and browse to the installation directory. Suppose your USB drive is E: Then browse to E:\MiKTeXPortable.

Click the Extract button.

Your USB structure should now be like

USB Drive
|
|-MikTexPortable

TeXStudio Portable Installation

Simply unzip the folder TeXStudio into the root folder or unzip it in any folder and copy the unzipped folder into the root folder of your USB device--it is where you are in when you have just opened your USB device. Your USB file structure should now look like